Product Changelog

Web App

Integrations

• Integrate with Google Contacts with the ability to:
  • Search contact lists and groups and send messages to the contacts number
  • Match names to numbers in the web reports and chats
  • Save new contacts from SBMG messages to Google Contacts for later
• Upgraded reporting summary to a larger chart integrating total counts
• Feedback form added for you to share bug reports and your thoughts in a review or feature request for our team
• Correcting display of sending limits to match updated limits from July

Android

Version 1.2.1 released

• UI improvements
  • Login layout improved and shows loading state while registration in progress
  • Main view displays clearer status and count of messages recognised by the device in send processing
  • Settings clear button and inside the organisation and clarity of elements improved.
• Improved send processing pipeline
• Background connection observability improvements (see web section below)
• Stability and bug fixes

Web App

• Introducing our new ‘Chats’ view for Boost and Pro users.
  • View recent messages in a chat conversation view.
  • Start new threads with new contacts from the same page.
  • Search the contact number or content of all recent messages.
  • Quick copy message content.
  • Emoji tool to simply send a quick 👍 or suggest special characters to enhance a message.
• Device connection status indicator now shows in the footer. This shows the approximate last seen time of your registered gateway device.
• Message timestamps are now shown in your local timezone (previously UTC time).

API

• Increased contact limit per send:
  • Base increased from 5 contacts to 50 contacts per send request
  • Boost increased from 10 contacts to 200 contacts per send request
  • Pro increased from 15 contacts to 500 contacts per send request

Android

Version 1.2 released

• Improved connectivity and reliability for delivery of messages. Testing has seen 99.5% delivery in sample runs up from batches of 1 to 500 messages.
• Message deduplication to avoid repeated sends of a requested message of the previous 5000 messages sent in a session.
• Login improvements disabling login button while processing device registration.
• Background server usage improvements.

Web App

• Expanded reporting data avaliable with all messsages loaded improved from the previous 50.
• Composer destination improvements:
  • Broader acceptance parsing phone number formats to improve compatiblity with your existing contact lists
  • E.164 (e.g. +6427001002) phone number validation highlighting in composer.
  • Contact limit counter display on composer.
• New CSV validation helper tool. Upload a CSV export from another system such as Google Contacts or Salesforce to prepare contact lists for messaging.
• Background improvements from the API (see below).

API

Another larger background change that has been in the works and is ready to rollout. This will enable a lot of planned improvements across the SBMG service.

• All API endpoints have had infrastructure uplifted for improved engineering management.
• New API endpoint pattern (e.g. /report → /v1/reporting/detail) to allow more features provided on our api, see API reference for details.
• API changes are backwards compatible with your integration using our original API (released and requiring no customer change). Original SBMG endpoints will be supported to at least Jan 2025. Planned API feature improvements in the pipeline will be avaliable on new endpoints which will provide value to you in any api upgrades you make.
• New endpoints:
  • GET /v1/reporting/usage to retrieve a summary of your account usage e.g. capacity, consumed capacity, message fragements, usage rollover date.
  • GET /v1/reporting/webhook to list all your webhooks with the assigned labels and ids. When creating webhooks you can now set labels to for reference of what your webhook is for.

Web App

• Sim options selector fixed for sending on dual sim setups
• Navigation update for visual clarity. See the page you are going to select and the page you are on easily
• Big reporting upgrade with a fresh new look and new additions
  • Messaging summary metric widgets
  • Quick visualisation of messaging with daily inbound and outbound charts
  • Easy access filters for direction and status
  • Refreshed table UI
  • Instant sorting, just select the column header you want ordered.
  • Clearer reporting quick action options for Boost and Pro users. Export CSV and quick compose actions are now directly above your report table. This also comes with flexibility improvements so you can now select a single/multiple/all records for follow-up/reply messages or export instead of the previous single message selection.

Android

Version 1.1 released

• Dual sim support. If your phone has multiple sim slots this enables you to have multiple contact numbers for messaging use cases, for example you can have one number for sales & marketing while the other line is reserved for customer support.
• Improved app background activity responsiveness
• A collection of stability improvements (session management, sending processes, support logging)

Web App

• Sim optionality in sending with carrier and phone number details

API

• Supports sending option of sim slot in requests. See docs
• Fixes to message sending performance and error handling.

Web App

• Walkthrough of setup and sending your first message in minutes here

API

Integrations

• New guides and example integrations with email2sms and api avaliable here

Android

• Check for gateway updates in setting
• Remote call forwarding configuration
• Device registration support metadata

Web App

• Call forwarding configuration in settings
• Password reset capability added
• Significant improvement to sending response time (clicking send to submission) from ~12 seconds to less than 2 seconds

API

• /sms response time improvements (as seen in the web portal)
• /sms returns the gateway’s message id in 200 response
• Architectural improvements

Integrations

• Chat GPT integration avaliable to GPT 4 subscribers. Find more here.
• Zapier triggers avaliable alongside actions in our beta Zapier integration. Find more here.

Android

• Background login refresh
• Report status

Web App

• Usage reporting
  • Plan data consumed
  • Forecasted total usage
  • Plan capacity details
  • Summary metrics of total messages sent and traditional SMS fragments
• New message send statuses as reported by SMS modem
• Reporting column formating improved particularly around dates
• Reporting actions improved removing SBMG sender id signature from generated template